September 2016 BGS Submission Result Number FIFTY - 2016 Topps Tier One : Corey Seager Clear One Autograph (18/25) Now BGS Graded Gem Mint 9.5

2016 Topps Tier One Corey Seager Clear Autograph (18/25)

I have a couple Seager autographs in this batch and like all cards I hope for them to earn 9.5's but this is one that may or may not gem as I can tell it is slightly off centered on the front. My other issue is on the flip side where I can't really tell if it is centered or not. We shall see.

Everything else looks good with the autograph being nice and crisp. I lean towards this earning a 9.5 but crossing my fingers at the same time.

I had an odd feeling that this might be iffy on it coming back as a gold banner 9.5 and indeed it barely squeaked by but that is fine with me as gold is gold no matter how it gets there.

For me the centering was tricky for me but BGS didn't think much of it and slapped a 9.5 on it but it was surface that came in with a lower grade of 9. I have to remember that any card that is plastic/acetate is more suspect to condition issues on surfaces. Lesson learned and very happy to add this Seager to my gem mint collection of the young man.

Thank you for reading and have a blessed day.

-Penguin

Card of the Day - 2016 Topps Tier One : Corey Seager Clear One Autograph (18/25)

This card took a long (over 2 months) and curvy road from eBay to my hands and to this day I am still debating if I am going to leave negative feedback or none at all as positive is definitely not an option. Only reason I am thinking about it is that the card looks to be in great condition with not a flaw to the naked eye.

Topps puts out a lot of product and the Tier One brand is not one that I normally pursue and this year is no different. While the autograph portion looked decent enough I wasn't overly impressed with the design but out of all the cards in the product there was one that stood apart from everything else and that was the Clear One autograph insert and low and behold Corey Seager was represented in it. I knew I wanted a copy if it could be had at a decent price and with that the long road started.

I saw this copy a couple weeks after the product debuted and the seller had a crazy asking price of over $250. I sent him an offer and he countered and I declined. Card went unsold and he relisted it at a lower amount so I sent an offer lower than my previous offer. He countered again and again I declined. This went on a couple more times and each time other copies sold for less than what he was asking for. Once again he put it up for sale and once again I sent over an offer and added a note stating we have been doing this dance for over a month (no joke). The starting price of $250 was long gone in the rear view mirror and we were playing in the double digits now. I think after the going back and forth finally wore him down and he accepted my last best offer. Woo Hoo. I won the card now I just had to wait for it to arrive. So I waited and waited and waited and 2 weeks had passed and no card. I reached out to the seller and never heard back from him so I had planned to open a case to get my money back. Before I would do that though I went to my PO Box one last time and staring back in the face was the card 3 weeks after I had won it. Like I do with all slow arriving packages I checked the date that it was mailed and saw that the seller sent it the day I reached out to him. My problem is he never responded to me which is a major issue I have with eBay sellers. Communication goes a long way. If he would have said, oops my bad I forgot to send it out, then I would be OK with it as the card looks great in person but I did not get that consideration so now I have to decide on feedback. We shall see, Other than that I have another great looking Seager autograph for my collection now.

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Thank you for reading and have a blessed day.

-Penguin